pinfold

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Pinfold Street takes its name from the "pound" or "pinfold" that existed there prior to 1752.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.

Oaths were not purpos'd more than law, To keep the good and just in awe, But to confine the bad and sinful, Like moral cattle, in a pinfold.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

For then she must think of the cow’s fodder and of the herdsman’s hire, flatter the heyward, defend herself when her cattle is shut up in the pinfold and moreover pay the damage.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: “Confined and pestered in this pinfold here”.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee care for me.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William